Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 2 | The couple , who live in the north of the city , were too embarrassed to talk about the missing nestegg . |
| 3 | Vietnam , however , maintained that internal issues should be discussed with the SOC government in Phnom Penh ; it was only willing to talk about the international aspects of the problem , and urged the USA to expand the talks to include the SOC government . |
| 4 | There is something beautifully simple and old fashioned about the whole family working and playing together on a warm afternoon beside a clean , bubbling stream . |
| 5 | Besides confusing the reformist Labour government in A Very British Coup with a revolutionary one , he denies the central claim of the programme — that a reformist ( let alone a revolutionary ) government would be suppressed — and hence avoids discussion of the important questions this raises about the British system of parliamentary democracy . |
| 6 | I have be very interested to hear about the recent developments and most impressed at what 's taken place , but er , I would like to ask about the international work , which I understand has been reduced . |
| 7 | You can be sure that some will be heard loud and clear complaining about the long Christmas holidays being taken by other people . |
| 8 | Lord Beresford was disposed to chat about the forthcoming cricket season , but was briskly recalled to his duties . |
| 9 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 10 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 11 | Literature on the subject has chiefly been critical ; for example , in a special review of the world press in 1973 , The Times of London had this to say about the African press in what was a uniformly gloomy and disapproving report : |
| 12 | The Select Committee ( 1987 ) examin-ing the working of the 1981 Education Act has this to say about the under-fives and special educational needs : |
| 13 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 14 | Ronnie Cairns , Head of Standards at Scottish Enterprise , had this to say about the three organisations ' joint commitment to quality : |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend is right to talk about the industrial capacity being too low to produce the recovery we need . |
| 16 | Robinson wo n't comment on House of Windsor , but he 's delighted to talk about the forthcoming £15m sponsorship of Coronation Street . |
| 17 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 18 | has already said that the Tories do n't seem to have any provision for capital and I 'm dying to know why they have as much to say about the additional buildings as anyone else er I 'd be interested to know what they say . |
| 19 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 20 | Stone might not have much to say about the past hundred years , but the shadow of the present undoubtedly hangs over the book . |
| 21 | Suvarov had much to say about the territorial ambitions of Marshal Stalin and David interrupted at one moment to ask whether Suvarov had ever met him . |
| 22 | Yet , except for their poverty , it is not easy to generalize about the poor : their attitudes and assumptions are harder to disinter than those of the dominant and vocal élites . |
| 23 | With hindsight it is possible to generalise about the two main directions in which this kind of sex difference research has developed since Lakoff . |
| 24 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to hear about the royal situation , but it is a personal matter , ’ she added . |
| 25 | Two lawyers are likely to differ about the best interpretation of the practices of legislation or precedent in a particular case because their general political and moral convictions differ . |
| 26 | While you will doubtless be quick to retaliate about the scrupulous judging procedure , please note that my observation was about the ‘ appropriateness ’ of the situation , particularly to outsiders . |
| 27 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 28 | Games rooms and reading rooms are fixtures in most hostels , and noticeboards , fellow hostellers and friendly wardens supply all the information you are likely to need about the local area . |
| 29 | Yeah , I think that sounds about the best way of handling it , does n't it ? |
| 30 | Did n't they all know about the terrible appearance of the Conablaiche last time , and how it had prowled the country , snatching sleeping children from their beds and tearing out their hearts for its Dark Master . |